- Designed by
- Louisa Maggio
- Category
- Best Designed Fully-Illustrated Book under $50
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Australia
About the Designer
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After designing more than 500 book covers, Louisa joined the team at Penguin Random House in 2016 in the Adult Publishing Department as an In-House designer, where she is working on an array of fiction and non-fiction titles. …
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I chose to illustrate a cozy lounge room scene for the cover design, filled with baby toys, and styled simplistically to represent family and the zero waste home environment. When illustrating the internals (line illustrations) I wanted them to be slightly intricate, and feature nature. I also wanted my illustrations to feature Anita, the author, throughout. The use of the bright, jade green pantone is intended to be a hero of the design as well as represent the environment. The overall look is intended to be calming, clean and playful.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 140 x 180 mm
- No. pages
- 252
- Special finishes
- Matt Lamination and Spot UV and Printed inside covers
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Louisa Maggio
- Illustration
- Louisa Maggio and Melissa Stefanovski
- Typesetting
- Louisa Maggio
- Printing
- 1010 Printing
- Author
- Anita VanDyke